Here is a better shot of the finished hood. It was pieced together on the car then over a period of several weeks slowly TIG welded back together. Ray whom the car belongs to is a superb metal craftsman as well as a primo paint & body man. The car was unveiled at Goodguys Lonestar two years ago and was featured in an article of StreetRod Builder.

DB the wet towels brought back some old memorys ,in my early teens I worked after school at the Ford dealer body shop,sweeping the floor carrying out trash e.t.c.. I got to help out the resident master body man ( he was in his 60's and had worked in body work all of his working life,so I guess Master was correct)and he put together three roof pieces to make a complete roof for a 49-50 Ford and that was my job keeping all of the towels wet and handing him stuff .He was a grouch and no one in the shop wanted to work with him. I stuck it out got to be good friends with him. He taught me how to work metal ,how to gas weld and how to do lead body work.....and how to cuss when things did not go right !
Kenny

Sounds familar....
Sorry Vince I missed a bunch of the last page ,that merc looks great...
Riot ....go for it ... you'll be glad you did...even if you totaly destroy the first hood theres still a bunch of them out there...it looks to me like the 57 top grill molding ,vette grill and the 56 bumper is a pretty common conversion but I really like the 55 headlight buckets a lot better.Wernt you thinking of doing that or was that someone else....

Sounds familar....
Sorry Vince I missed a bunch of the last page ,that merc looks great...
Riot ....go for it ... you'll be glad you did...even if you totaly destroy the first hood theres still a bunch of them out there...it looks to me like the 57 top grill molding ,vette grill and the 56 bumper is a pretty common conversion but I really like the 55 headlight buckets a lot better.Wernt you thinking of doing that or was that someone else....

That pic is another car. Not his car.

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